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Vintage black & white photo of a man in a suit holding a chart and a pointer. The chart shows the "SIZE OF THE DONUT HOLE DOWN THROUGH THE YEARS" with illustrations of donuts from 1927, 1937, and 1948

Important scientific advancements have slowed considerably since 1948.

working on a windows 95 themed automation game about making powerpoint decks #gamedev

with all their gravity they have the secret of lightness, and that what many consider to be the vitality of the times - noisy, aggressive, revving and roaring - belongs to the realm of death, like a cemetery for rusty old cars."

- Italo Calvino, 1985
Six Memos for the Next Millennium

"Were I to choose an auspicious image for the new millennium, I would choose that one: the sudden agile leap of the poet-philosopher who raises themself above the weight of the world, showing that ... (cot'd)

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- LBJ #HearThis

"My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it."

- Italo Calvino, 1985
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
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The Week of July 13th #HearThis Sharing 3 Pieces of Black Specific Content With My Kids This Week 2025 Edition

Kitchener-Waterloo There's 'overwhelming' demand for this Kitchener summer swim program for BIPOC, low-income families “Swimming is a recreational skill but it's also a life skill.” Asad Chishti · CBC News · Posted: Jul 08, 2025 9:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: July 8 Group of swimming students playing with their lifeguards in the pool. Afropolitan Canada's partnership with the city of Kitchener continues with the return of a free swimming program. The program focuses on low-income, newcomer, and BIPOC families continues to see growing demand. (Asad Chishti/CBC)

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Person on a stage at a concert wearing a red hoodie "Not Like Us Explained"

#HearThis Sharing 3 pieces of Black specific content with my kids this week.

1. Summer swim program for BIPOC, low-income families
2. AGO to unveil monumental bronze sculpture by Thomas J Price
3. Not Like Us Explained

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I think these stories are all worth #Amplifying

I had to drive my mom to the airport at 5am and I caught some NPR news (I love NPR, I support NPR, I can't listen to much NPR these days). It just hammered home to me how ill equipped news desks are for the current situation. There was like a 1-2min news read that was like reading a press release -

9 Ontario First Nations ask for injunction against Bill 5, say law represents 'clear and present danger' | CBC News Nine First Nations in Ontario are asking a court for an injunction that would prevent the federal and provincial governments from moving forward with some of the most contentious aspects of recent law...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... the court document is a good one if anyone wants to peruse it

whoa, this is the first i'm hearing of this.

hahahahaha

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@azshutter.bsky.social got your book! thanks for the discount code. #OnlySevenMonthsLater

where does this fall in regards to:
drowning
marinating in
treading

In 2007, a clip went viral of a man being stopped on the street by a Guangzhou TV reporter. The man was asked about a sex scandal that was all over the news at the time and his reply has been a popular Chinese slang phrase for not getting involved ever since. He said “I’m just here to buy soy sauce”

Hmm. There's a ton of wonderful big reporting rn by nonprofit & indy media — all the States Newsrooms, ProPublica, Texas Trib, Fort Worth Report, Montana Free Press, The Appeal... Bolts!

It'd be great to read & share the newsrooms that do this, rather than the quite vague hand-wringing.

what was the bird humming saeed

(It feels so apparent + obvious once you realize how flawed, not the right word but you get it, our decision making practices actually are. Especially organizationally but also individually.)

Excellent excellent, v true v true.

I took this Deep Democracy course a few years back, www.lewisdeepdemocracy.com, *REALLY* helped develop thinking and comprehension on these topics + overlaps.

What happens when the internet disappears? Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?

I'm at @theverge.com today talking about digital decay, link rot, watching my work slowly being erased from the internet, and how it makes me feel like I am fading away.

Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81 The poet and activist was a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni was working on her upcoming book of poetry, set to publish in the fall.

"We will forever be grateful for the unconditional time she gave to us, to all her literary children across the writerly world," said Kwame Alexander in the statement on the renowned Nikki Giovanni’s death

Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81 Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

Graphic design is my passion

The new verification system is just you have to find paul or eric in person and show them your ID and they give you a sticker for your laptop

supporting nonprofit journalism may not seem like what Black Friday deals are made of.

But here's what you get
—independent reporting brings you lots of info
—sustains writers w critical beats
—coverage of local politics you need
—knowing thru 2025 that you helped
—it's matched!
boltsmag.org/donate

Old ruin viewed through a glass frame with the original outlines of the building etched onto the glass

An interesting way to help people visualize what a ruin used to be.